On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 12:03, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 13:19, Adam Williamson kirjoitti: > > On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 04:35, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > > Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 03:50, Adam Williamson kirjoitti: > > > > I've just started noticing this since I came in from work, about > > > > 10:30pm. Since then I've updated to kernel 0.5mdk and a few other minor > > > > updates (lm_sensors 2.8.0 and a couple of other small things). Certain > > > > things, between which I can't find much of a link, seem to slow the > > > > system down *massively*; the two I've noticed most so far are running > > > > urpmi --auto-select, and saving a file with Galeon. When doing either > > > > of these, the system becomes incredibly sluggish to respond - if I > > > > bring a window forward, for instance, I can watch it redrawing in > > > > separate stages, with several seconds between each, and the whole > > > > system just has the very sluggish response you'd expect if 100% CPU > > > > were being used or something. top does not report 100% CPU usage, > > > > though. Anyone else seeing this? Any idea what the problem is? > > > > > > Just a thought... what does : > > > # hdparm -iv /dev/hda > > > > > > tell you when it happends... > > > > > > here is mine (just an example of what you should see) > > > /dev/hda: > > > multcount = 16 (on) > > > IO_support = 1 (32-bit) > > > unmaskirq = 1 (on) > > > using_dma = 1 (on) > > > keepsettings = 0 (off) > > > readonly = 0 (off) > > > readahead = 8 (on) > > > > No, it's nothing to do with DMA or IO. hdparm is the very first thing I > > check in such cases. > > The reason I asked was because Stefan did see his nForce2 system > drop out of dma under heavy load, and it newer recovered correctly, > the problem with that is that I'm not able to reproduce the bug, so I > wondered if you had the same problem.. > > Now on with the questions... > > Do you use acpi=on or acpi=off? > Have you tried noapic?
acpi=off - ACPI still doesn't seem to work right on nforce2, the USB bus doesn't work. Not tried noapic, will do in a few minutes. > Does your m/b have any other integrated nic? No. > is it supported, and if so does it behave the same way? N/A. I do have a PCI network card lying around somewhere, I think - I may plug that in and try it out tonight. -- adamw
